Online donation contributes significantly to marginalized and vulnerable people because it
is helpful for beneficiaries or donation requesters to receive attention and finance funding …

A pocket switched network (PSN) is dynamically formed by people who carry portable
handheld devices. Interest in PSNs is driven by the increasing number of handheld devices …

One of the key factors for the spreading of human infections, such as the COVID-19, is
human mobility. There is a huge background of human mobility models developed with the …

There are contexts where TCP/IP is not suitable for performing data transmission due to long
delays, timeouts, network partitioning, and interruptions. In these scenarios, mobile …

The Internet has crossed new frontiers with access to it getting faster and cheaper.
Considering that the architectural foundations of today's Internet were laid more than three …

Opportunistic networks can provide an alternative way to support the diffusion of information
in special locations within a city, particularly in crowded spaces, where current wireless …

Regular citizens equipped with smart devices are being increasingly used as “sensors” by
Smart Cities applications. Using contacts among users, data in the form of messages is …

Mobility of computing devices in Internet of Things brings the challenge of robust data
forwarding over time-varying networks. To realize robust data forwarding methods in time …

In opportunistic networks (OppNets), which are characterized by intermittent end‐to‐end
connections, the messages are routed in a store‐carry‐and‐forward fashion using the …

Residential energy constitutes 38% of the total energy consumption in the United States [1].
Although a number of building simulators have been proposed, there are no residential …